Help Others

The Help Others feature is a social matchmaking tool that bla bla bla

Matchmaking
To figure out which match to place you when you press the "Help Others" button, we use a Scoring system. The goal is to prioritize filling up Public games where only one person is playing by herself, while also trying to pair together characters of similar power (estimated by the Gear Score).

First step: Matchmaking Criteria
If any one of there criteria are not met, the match in question is removed from Matchmaking even before it is scored.

Is the match not full?

Does my character have the minimum Gear Score for the activity?

Does the host's character have the minimum Gear Score for the activity?

Is the activity not on its final boss or final section?

NOTE: If there are no eligible matches in your Region, the matchmaking will try to find a suitable game for you in another Region.

Second step: Scoring
Every Match on your Region that meets every criteria above will be Scored. The base Score for each match is 0.

Final step: Choosing a Match
All eligible matches receive a Score according to the criteria above. If there is a tie between different matches one is chosen randomly.

Ex: Let's imagine you have a Gear Score (GS) of 280 and there are 3 matches in your Region (A, B and C) with the following setup:

Match A: Host with 214 GS on activity with minimum 240 GS. Players: 1/4. Time: 112s

Score: Removed from matchmaking due to host having low GS for the activity.

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Match B: Host with 100 GS on activity with minimum 80 GS. Players: 1/4. Time: 70s

Score: 85 (+5 GS Ratio, +30 Time, +50 Player count)

***

Match C: Host with 300 GS on activity with minimum 240 GS. Players: 3/4. Time: 12s

Score: 65 (+50 GS Ratio, +15 Time, +0 Player count)

So in this example. Match B is chosen instead of Match C. Even if Match C is much closer in terms of character progression, filling up a game where someone is alone takes priority over a game that already has 3 people.

Rewards
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